Group One winning juvenile Peggy Jean topped Day Two of the Magic
Millions National Broodmare Sale on Thursday when selling for a cool $1 million
on the Gold Coast.

The
good looking daughter of Myboycharlie was presented at the auction by
Yarraman Park Stud, who acted as agent for Triple Crown Syndications and
she was purchased by Widden Stud.

It was the second time Peggy
Jean had been sold through the National Sale ring in Queensland. She was
originally purchased for $25,000 from the 2012 National Weanling Sale
when offered by Donnybrook Estates.

On the track she proved her
class by winning two feature races as a juvenile, highlighted by victory
in the Group One ATC Sires' Produce Stakes at Randwick.

Peggy
Jean came to the sale in fantastic shape after her first season at stud,
in foal to leading Hunter Valley based sire I Am Invincible.

"She's just gorgeous," Widden Stud's Antony Thompson said. "She's a mare that I think will breed a sale topper."

"She's got a lovely deep pedigree and it's there right
on top as a Group One winning two-year-old."

"For mine she's one of the mares of the sale and hopefully she's a mare we can breed a Group One winner or champion from."

"She's
a lovely mare for Sebring, so he looks the obvious choice and I think a
Sebring out of Peggy Jean is something that every trainer around
Australia would love to have in their stable," Thompson said.

Another
mare to star on the day was the exciting prospect Surf Poet. The Willow
Park offering was carrying a three quarter relation to star mare Sweet
Idea and sold to Emirates Park for $700,000.

"She is a mare that
ticks all the boxes," Emirates Park's Bryan Carlson reported. "Pedigree,
type and especially being free of Danehill blood."

"She is a
half sister to a Group One winner in Sweet Idea. Charge Forward is
starting to become a good broodmare sire and she is in foal to Snitzel."

"The competition was strong but I thought the price was right," Carlson
added.

Three time Group One winner Yosei attracted plenty of
interest when she was presented for sale by Morning Rise Stud and was
snapped up with a $580,000 bid from David O'Callaghan on behalf of Sun
Bloodstock.

"She's by Invincible Spirit who is a world class sire
and she's a triple Group One winner so we were really pleased to get
her," O'Callaghan said.

"She's a quality mare and she's an outcross so she could be bred to almost any stallion you like really."

Sydney
based bloodstock agent Colm Santry snapped up one of the best producers
in the sale - the stakes performed Pretty Penny for $570,000.

Offered
by Amarina Farm, the rising 16-year-old mare is the dam of classy
performers Sertorius, Clifton Red, I Am Titanium and Fortune of War.

"She
is an older mare but she has four black type horses from her first four
foals and I didn't think there was a better broodmare in the sale."

"She's by Encosta de Lago. She's a
magnificent looker and everything out of her has sold very well in the sale ring."

"We'll
be very happy to get three or four foals out of her," Santry added.
"They will be very valuable. We bought her specifically to go to Fastnet
Rock."

Today's strong clearance rate at the National Broodmare
Sale helped boost the overall sale gross after two days to almost $52
million.

"The sale has gone from strength to strength," Magic
Millions Managing Director Vin Cox said. "It is powering along at every
level."

"Our numbers are well up. Our gross is up almost $10
million to over $51.9 million and that by anyone's standards is a very,
very good sale."

"The average of $138,000 is up 15 per cent or
about $18,000 and a clearance rate of 84 per cent and that really is the
indicator that where the markets sits. When you're selling eight and a
half horses out of 10 it's a strong market and people are selling and
people are buying," Cox
added.

To see a video review of Day Two of the National Broodmare Sale click here and to view the sale results and make an offer on a passed in lot click here.

Day Three of the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale will commence at 10am (AEST) on Friday.